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Genotyping of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in infected patients from South India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2007
Chandra Madhavi, Thippavuzzula Rekha, Ramachandra Rao V V, Habib Aejaz M, Habibullah Chittor M, Narasu Lakshmi, Prameela Y, Khaja Mohammed N
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus shows substantial nucleotide sequence diversity distributed throughout the viral genome. In the present study genotyping for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients was based on RFLP analysis of 5' UTR and using type specific primers of NS5B regions. It was observed that 60% of the patients (30 patients with chronic hepatitis) were infected with variants of genotype 1 and 40% of the patients...
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